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Re: Support for bringing package change logs to the user's attention


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Support for bringing package change logs to the user's attention
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 17:07:32 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>> - A "News:" section (or "NEWS" file) can/should be used to list the
>>>   user-visible changes of each version.
>>> It's not clear to me that anything is actually done with that
>>> information.

It's used, but indeed it should be used more.

Some additional places where it could be used come to mind:
- in the automatic email notification sent to gnu.emacs.sources
- when viewing a package in package-list-packages
- as suggested by Christopher, when upgrading an installed package.


-- Stefan




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